The artist and director Gabriele Gianni has been working for some time on possible reinterpretations of the art of the past through the codes of Artificial Intelligence, to offer new and original paths based on the mathematical processes generated by algorithms. Variabile Altemps is the ideal follow-up to Gianni's previous work Artificial Creation, commissioned and produced by the Carla Fendi Foundation in 2023 for the Spoleto66 Festival dei Due Mondi.

Just as it happened in the Renaissance, when artists used mathematics and geometry to construct symbolic paths within their masterpieces, Gianni was able to analyze and reinterpret the archaeological collections of Palazzo Altemps and the National Roman Museum through the generative energy of AI.

A series of video installations come to life, imagining the evolution of the works over time and their formal and conceptual stratifications. In this immersive space, faces emerge from the stone and return to it, in a continuous and incessant process of transforming forms, between creation and destruction, accompanied by archaic sounds created by the composer Mario Salvucci, bearing ancient and mysterious rituals reactivated by AI.

The artist has developed two models of Artificial Intelligence, specifically trained on the Museum's data: the first reconstructs the missing parts of ancient portraits, adding details to fragmentary faces and restoring features lost over time. The second, trained on fragments of statues, activates a diametrically opposite process, accelerating the transformation of the stone, allowing us to glimpse the emergence and disappearance of the sculptural form.